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Big turn out for Canon City health fair, two more left
April 28, 2012 2:57 PM
The Southern Colorado Health Fair in Canon City keeps getting bigger every year, according to a volunteer who's helped out for the last nine years. The Canon City site has been in operation for 15 years. Saturday at the Evangelical Free Church in Canon City, the fair nearly reached... more » -
Health fairs kick off in southern Colorado
March 17, 2012 1:22 PM
The first of several health fairs around the state kicked off today. Hundreds of people came to the one in Pueblo Saturday, which is part of the Southern Colorado Health Fairs. CSU-Pueblo's nursing program helped run the one on Saturday at Praise Assembly of God. There are several... more » -
Hardwork, heavy equipment and dynamite help reopen road
February 20, 2011 5:36 PM
US Highway 50 west of Cotopaxi has reopened for the first time in nearly a week. Workers with the Colorado Department of Transportation lifted the barriers just before 12:30 p.m. Sunday. An estimated 7,000 tons of rock fell on the roadway last Monday in an area approximately 2 miles west... more » -
Highway 50 through Cotopaxi reopens
February 20, 2011 2:51 PM
News First 5's Andy Koen has just called into the newsroom from Cotopaxi to report that the section of Colorado Highway 50 that had been closed for the past several days has just reopened. CDOT crews have been working day and night to clear tons of boulders that fell to... more » -
CDOT rolls rocks, but the going is slow
February 18, 2011 6:51 PM
CDOT work crews continue to spend long days breaking up rocks and hauling them away, but the going is slow at a rock slide one mile west of Cotopaxi. Highway 50 has been blocked since Monday by an estimated 7,000 tons of rocks. That's enough to fill 30 average-size... more » -
Rock removal continues near Cotopaxi
February 17, 2011 3:05 PM
Rock removal continues on Highway 50 west of Cotopaxi to remove rubble from a rock slide that happened Monday. Crews worked until sundown yesterday and all morning trying to break the larger boulders into smaller pieces so they can be hauled away. Workers are using drills and blasting... more » -
Rock slide clean up to take "a couple days"
February 15, 2011 5:08 PM
A specialized team of mountaineers are in western Fremont County scaling a cliff-side in with ropes and pulleys to remove loose rocks at the site of a massive rock slide from Monday. The slide happened about two miles west of the town of Cotopaxi and is estimated to be... more » -
Rock slide will keep Highway 50 closed Tuesday
February 14, 2011 10:36 PM
Tuesday morning, a geologist with the Colorado Department of Transportation will assess how dangerous and unstable a rock slide sitting on Highway 50 really is. The massive slide happened late Monday afternoon, west of the small town of Cotopaxi, shutting down Highway 50 in both directions. C-DOT workers... more » -
Rock slide closes Highway 50 near Cotopaxi
February 14, 2011 7:34 PM
A rock slide, described as "massive" by a local official, has closed Highway 50 in western Fremont County. Highway 50 parallels the Arkansas River from the Royal Gorge to Salida. The slide area is just west of the small town of Cotopaxi. The road is expected to be... more » -
Burning planned in Cotopaxi, Parkdale areas
November 1, 2010 12:38 PM
Residents in the Cotopaxi and Parkdale areas west of Canon City may see smoke in the near future as a result of slash pile burning by the Bureau of Land Management. The slash piles consist of debris from forest thinning projects. The project areas include: Arkansas Mountain, four miles... more » -
Highway 50 closed for 5 hours due to rollover
October 22, 2010 11:19 PM
Highway 50 near Cotopaxi was closed down in both directions for 5 hours Friday evening after a semi rolled over. That's between Canon City and Salida. It took a while to clean it all up because a large load of lumber from the truck spilled on the road. No word... more » -
Artist Jeanne-Claude dies
November 19, 2009 11:52 AM
The artist Jeanne-Claude has died. She created the 2005 art installation in Central Park called "The Gates" with her husband, Christo, along with other eye-popping fabric installations around the world. Her family says Jeanne-Claude died Wednesday night at a New York hospital from complications of a brain aneurysm. In February... more »
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